# Wan review (2026): is the free plan enough? > AI video and image generator on monthly credit plans Checked Nov 12, 2026 ยท graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. Wan is a web studio for generating video and images with the Wan models. It has a free plan that earns credits through a daily check-in and two paid memberships with monthly credits, longer clips and 1080p output. A separate CLI and API exist, and are bought separately. - **Category:** AI Image & Video Generators - **Made by:** Wan AI - **Website:** https://wan.video - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Tight if you stay free: one video at a time and 6 image styles. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 12, 2026, Wan has a free plan, and paid plans start at $5 per month for 300 credits, billed yearly ($10 billed monthly). - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** 1 video and 1 image at a time, 6 image styles, and free credits earned by a daily check-in. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Free | $0 | One video and one image at a time, 6 image styles, daily check-in credits. | | Pro | $5 per month for 300 credits, billed yearly ($10 billed monthly) | 3 videos and 3 images at a time, watermark-free downloads, 1080p, videos of 10 to 30 seconds. | | Premium | $20 per month for 1,200 credits, billed yearly ($40 billed monthly) | 8 videos and 5 images at a time, plus the Pro features and all image styles. | Read from https://create.wan.video/pricing on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Wan before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Yearly billing, 50% off** (Annual discount): The membership page lists Pro at $5 a month billed yearly against $10 billed monthly, and Premium at $20 against $40. Source: https://create.wan.video/pricing ## Key features - **Video generation up to 1080p:** Paid plans create high-resolution 1080p video and longer clips of 10 to 30 seconds. - **Image generation with styles:** Free accounts get 6 image styles; paid plans unlock all of them. - **Concurrent submissions:** Plans differ in how many jobs run at once: 1 video on Free, 3 on Pro and 8 on Premium. - **Accelerate mode:** The page says credits stretch to up to 1,200 images or 60 videos on Pro, and 4,800 images or 240 videos on Premium. - **Canvas, skills and CLI:** The studio menu lists a Canvas, Skills, a Playground and a CLI/API area alongside the generator. ## Good for - Hobbyists who want to try video generation at a low monthly price - Creators who need watermark-free 1080p clips on a small budget ## Worth knowing - The listed prices carry a '50% off' label for yearly billing; monthly-billed prices are double. - The first month or year is non-refundable after activation, per the page. - The membership covers create.wan.video only; the API and other products are bought separately. - The pages read do not name the company behind Wan. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. Wan is a web studio for the Wan video and image models, and the cheapest paid plan is $5 a month on yearly billing. Free accounts do one video at a time on daily check-in credits, and the first month or year is non-refundable. - **Value for money: B.** $5 a month for 300 credits on yearly billing, in the cheaper quarter of the category. Billed monthly it's $10, and Premium is $20 yearly. - **Free plan and trial: C.** A free plan with one video and one image at a time, 6 image styles and credits earned by a daily check-in. The amounts aren't on the listing. - **Features: B.** Video up to 1080p and clips of 10 to 30 seconds, image generation with styles, canvas and skills, and a CLI and API area. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. Credits, concurrency and accelerate mode are explained on the page, and you work out the costs as you go. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** Web only. The membership covers create.wan.video, and the API and other products are sold separately. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Wan AI's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. Wan AI ## Where it stands among AI image and video generators - Wan's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 49 of the 89 other AI image and video generators we grade, and level with 16. - It stands best on value for money (B, above 63 of 89) and worst on platforms and integrations (C, above 2). - Its paid plans start at $5 a month, against a middle price of $10 for the category: 4 of the 65 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 4 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/ai-images ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Wan you would be making a video model, which you can rent by the second but not make. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. It costs $60 a year. - You could not: A video model, which you can rent by the second but not make. - You could not: An image model, which you can rent by the picture but not make. - You could not: An API that other software can build on. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. - You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. **Tags:** Video generation, Image generation, AI features, Public API ## Alternatives - [Kling AI](https://toolgpa.com/tools/kling-ai): AI video and image generator with monthly credit plans. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/kling-ai-vs-wan) - [Vidu](https://toolgpa.com/tools/vidu): AI video generator with reference-to-video and image-to-video. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/vidu-vs-wan) - [Hailuo AI](https://toolgpa.com/tools/hailuo): MiniMax's video and image generator, running its H3 model. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/hailuo-vs-wan) - [Runway](https://toolgpa.com/tools/runway): AI video, image and audio studio with its own Gen-4.5 model. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/runway-vs-wan) - [PixVerse](https://toolgpa.com/tools/pixverse): AI video app built on PixVerse V6, with templates and an agent. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/pixverse-vs-wan) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026: - https://create.wan.video/pricing - https://wan.video/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/wan Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).